A Memorial Day Message From BangShift.com – Let Us Remember What Is Truly Important

Today is Memorial Day, an important day of remembrance for our country that honors the people who have spilled their blood in order to defend our way of life. Memorial Day is dedicated to remembering...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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The American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is now LIVE! Save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit May 18-26!

That’s right folks, the American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is on now through Tuesday the 26th, so if you want to save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit use the link below and tell them we sent...

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Chaos Supernationals Video: Nitro Qualifying Round 1 and 2, Plus Eliminations Rounds From Summit Motorsports Park In Norwalk, Ohio.

The Chaos Series was at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk Ohio, and did everything they could to put on a hell of a show, even if Mother Nature wasn’t helping out much. Thanks to our friend...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Sunday $20,000 Race LIVE! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Car Feature: The Big Iron 1956 Chevy Gasser Is About As BangShift Approved As They Come – Killer!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Some of us who long for the more-simple, older days of hot-rodding wonder if younger generations ‘get it’.  Ryan Pope is a 28-year-old from Southern...

Watch The 1985 Big Bud Shootout From Indy – Great Names, Great Cackle, Great Dry Hops, Great History

In working on all of my stuff for the upcoming Chevrolet Performance US Nationals, I came upon this video from 1985 that features nothing but the action from the Big Bud Shootout. Since the Traxxas...

Sad Or Rad? This Blown Small Block Powered AMC Gremlin Has Got Something Going On!

It’s rough, and it’s funny looking, but is this Blown Small Block Powered AMC Gremlin Rad or Sad? With a Weiand Blown 350 under the hood and big Mickey Thompson slicks somehow stuffed...

2015 Tri-Five Nationals Coverage: More Square Chevrolet Goodness From Bowling Green

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – Before my mondo computer melt down a week or two ago we were showing you all kinds of great Bryan McTaggart photos from the 2015 Tri-Five Nationals which were...

Fuel Altered Video: This Short Film About The Metal Mafia Iron Big Block Chevy AA/FA Is AWESOME!

Sean Belt, a longtime fuel altered racer put together a team that has become known as The Metal Mafia. A short documentary on the team and their trip to one of the coolest tracks in the country,...

Classic YouTube: It’s Big, It’s Brown, And It Hauls! It’s A 700-horse Caprice Wagon!

If you want to see one car that Brian, Chad and I would all agree on, this slightly ragged-looking 1980s Chevy Caprice wagon would be a great choice. For Chad, it’s a Chevy wagon. For Brian,...

Don’t Want A Sand Drag Bike But Want The Wind In Your Helmet? How About ATV Sand Drags?

It’s only logical: someone had an ATV and loved to race it. They saw sand drags and thought, “Hey, you know what would be cool?” and the next thing anybody knew, a sociopathic...

Cool Video: Watch The Trailer To THREE MILE A New Brian Darwas Film That Follows The Rolling Bones To Bonneville

Filmmaker Brian Darwas has really built a nice resume for himself with movies that are really based around the hot rodding culture. They are not real films that gearheads can appreciate for the cars,...

Doesn’t This Wheelstanding Capri From Australia Make You Want To Build A Little Car?

That’s exactly what seeing this little Capri standing on the bumper does for us. We want one now! The guys racing in the APSA Series there at Sydney are putting on a great show and we always...

This Big Block Chevrolet Powered Suzuki Samurai Street Sleeper Is For Sale! And It Rules!

We’re sure that nothing good can come from actually hammering on this big block Chevrolet powered Suzuki Samurai, but we certainly want to play with it anyway! Check this sucker out! We can...

It’s A Race And A Comedy Show When The LSX Willys Takes On This Terminator Mustang

If you know that you are beaten before the fight has even begun, there are a few ways to lessen the damage. One of those methods is through humor…laughter has the ability to cross over lines...

This Suzuki Hayabusa Is Turbocharged…Because A Stock Hayabusa Is Just Not Enough, Right?

The word Hayabusa is the Japanese word for the Peregrine Falcon, which is fitting that the super bike that was fast enough to panic both the Japanese and European manufacturers about a possible ban...

Matt Hagan Runs 3.879!? Kills Beckman’s Record Run At 329.58 MPH!!!

Matt Hagan runs 3.879! Sure 1000 Feet Drag Racing slows them down! Apparently Matt Hagan and Jack Beckman didn’t get the memo, and neither did the rest of the Schumacher Racing stable! Matt...

This 10-second Suzuki Samurai Is The Fastest Tangerine We’ve Ever Seen

The Suzuki Samurai. It’s just a step above a Polaris RZR, a step below a Geo Tracker, the target of auto safety nazis for it’s penchant to roll over like an obedient dog, and normally not...